"So this is level 5?"

John felt information loaded into his consciousness.

"It seems to pass this level. One must perfectly condense their avatar."

"Until now. My model has followed the design of eldritch entities. But it is incomplete."

"This level shouldn't be too hard."

John was also trying to do something unique here.

A dual existence! Similar to when he made his calamity system. He wanted a secret identity that could 'respawn'.

Creating a consciousness that couldn't be scrambled! John would apply the 'feeling' of his consciousness getting wiped out and reconstructed in level 2.

He already had an immortal body in the physical world. Simply teleporting wiped out his body and reconstructed it somewhere else. His control of formations essentially made him immortal.

You must remember that before entering this universe. John had made a 'revival interval' that worked by checking if his body was existing. If it wasn't it would revive him. He also had various levels to this.

But this all depended on having a consciousness to attach to the body again.

In this universe. John was working to acquire the ability to be able to respawn... but on the level of his consciousness! This was a sublime level of survivability.

Ever since John comprehended how to do 'Infinite Mind'. His processing power had truly reached infinite levels.

This was a legendary technique that not every data lifeform could do the equivalent of. Most simply grinded away until they were able to pass the first level.

Their processing power was still finite.

But John wasn't alone... an above average data lifeform could do the equivalent of 'Infinite Mind'.

John began to manifest his Paradise.

He looked at himself as his Model. He began to redesign it. Solidifying it.

If one had to describe his avatar in one word.

"Calamity."

You would think an eldritch avatar would be unable to be put into words. As merely trying to picture such a thing would invoke madness.

But that was the 'key' for passing this level. You had to clearly and without vagueness transform your model into a well defined avatar.

So John had to clearly describe both the effect and look of his avatar.

He started with the legs.

There were two just like a normal bipedal creature.

Nothing too crazy right? But now he focused on skin color. Things started to get a bit weird here. It was less like a color and more like the event horizon of a blackhole. Still within the limits of the imagination.

Now the torso. It looked similar to that of a ribcage. John took some of his experiences and combined them with his avatar. Just like when he used to have a skeletal body.

It was a ribcage with a blue sun within instead of being hollow. Do not imagine his body as a skeleton. This is merely one aspect of his torso.

It is actually slightly transparent. Allowing you to see his 'heart'. Which he based off the 'Original Mind'.

But with each 'pulse' of the blue sun. The transparency would change. Making it unable to be seen every other 'second'.

His clothes themselves were like the robes of an immortal daoist. But at a cosmic level with his chest still exposed. The robes themselves looked as if they had a special animated background.

It wasn't giant stars. But like the light radiation of space.

Now... his arms.

There were eight of them. Two of which connected to the side of his torso. They looked muscular and like human arms albeit with special characteristics and changes to their form.

You then had six arms which looked almost like wings that were connected to his back. Just like how his chest could be seen through with each pulse. You could randomly see his skeleton of his avatar through these arms.

But it looked more like a fallen angels wings with how they were displayed.

Now his head.

The head itself looked in a way alien. There were six eyes and no mouth. The eyes looked like portals, each one leading to a different dimension.

The mouth itself was hidden. When talking with his avatar. It looked like a hole was getting ripped apart showing the hidden mouth.

The tongue looked like a gas almost. While the teeth looked like wormholes.

The scale of his body? It was much larger then a star.

That wasn't the full description of his body. Along with each pulse from the 'heart'. It would have a certain glitch like movement to it. For example.

If he waved his hands. It didn't look like something going from point A to point B.

It instead looked as if reality was warping and it was reaching the destination impossibly.

What was the effect of this avatar? Due to the sheer size of the avatar. The portals in the eyes could actually be explored. John had designed various environments through simulations here.

John had also incorporated 'Final Destination' into it.

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So there was a black ball of energy and a white ball of energy rotating like yin and yang around his head. As if they were planets.

Within his hand was the core of his Paradise.

But surrounding his body was something he had copied from his previous sea of consciousness. It was his spiritual castle.

This was also a part of his avatar. It was linked with his Paradise.

He sat on a throne that looked like it was made of the thunder tree that had once been his inheritance from a supreme being after transformation.

But this was all too stationary for his liking. So... it warped and looked as if magic formations had cut a line between his spiritual castle and his throne. So he was existing at multiple places at once. As the formations rotated around him like magical gears.

This was a fusion between his avatar and his paradise.

There was also not just 'Final Destination'. But the yin and yang from the cultivator universe. This formed a symbol on the back of his robes.

John's sea of consciousness dissolved completely.

Within his mind was no longer a 'sea of consciousness' that was fake. Instead... within his mind was his Paradise.

Within a castle sat a giant abomination on a throne made from the memories of a supreme being.

This throne floated in the air and touched nothing.

Around this entity was strips containing complicated formations and magic. These strips rotated around like some sort of machine.

The entity had eight arms. Two of which were holding a blackhole that drew in the person observing it. Above this entity was a black and white ball of energy.

On the back of his robes unable to be seen. Was a hidden yin and yang.

This was John's Paradise and Avatar!

'Grade: ???'

'Error... overflow...'

The avatar began to transform into something more generic. The spiritual castle vanished. The blackhole disappeared.

Yin and yang was hidden. Same with 'final destination'.

John looked like a mere celestial emperor.

His body was like a giant alien. With three eyes and multiple planets rotating around him.

'User has passed...'

'Grade: A'

John had developed something legendary in this universe.

A dual state existence.

This was something even the rulers of this universe had no idea was possible. Even the first and oldest data lifeforms that designed the schools and rules of the universe had no idea creating a dual state existence was possible.

What did this mean?

It meant that John had established a sort of incognito mode. Just like when he had the calamity system. He had a secret identity called 'Destinatus'.

John took inspiration from when he had used a helmet and his consciousness at the same time.

He could now transform his consciousness into one of two states.

He could be 'J-0hn'. A normal data lifeform.

Or something more interesting.

He wasn't sure yet what to call this transformation. He was also curious how it would test against other data lifeforms.

He initially wanted to call it 'origin of calamity'. But it wasn't his origin.

Soon John found himself at level 6.

This level was all about learning how to connect to the system of the universe. You essentially designed your own Interface. But all the information was kept as part of the system.

It was similar to creating a program that synced information from an API.

So how would John's dual existence work? Well... if he tried to use his incognito mode here. He would be completely exposed.

John planned to keep that a secret. That meant he would lack a public 'properties' for it. His 'special' transformation would lack something even newborns had upon graduating school.

But he could obviously create a private properties for his other persona. It just wouldn't be connected to the system.

John planned for his 'J-0hn' persona to be a law abiding citizen.

Only you were able to see your own properties.

But everyone had access to the same API. So the functionality was pretty much the same.

This is what his Properties looked like after constructing it. He also gained access to hidden information, like his ID for using the VIP list.

{

Name: 'J-0hn',

ID: 'J-0hn #1',

Data: 0,

Firewall: min,

Processing_Power: ∞,

Mental_Strength: ∞,

Entropy: 0%,

Paradise_Level: B,

Avatar_Level: A,

Role: Unassigned,

Certified: false,

VIP: []

}

Most things were intuitive. Except for entropy.

What was entropy?

Thanks to the system. Every data lifeform was immortal. But they could leave the bounds of the system and go to the outskirts of the universe.

Once someone was not within the protection zones. Over time. Their entropy would increase. It was essentially like a health bar for data lifeforms.

Except the opposite. If you reached 100% entropy. Your existence would eventually dissipate.

This wasn't all of John's properties. There was also a section for friend invites and pending friend request. A private message tool. Banking information and data transfer. And a few other unimportant things relating to jobs and such.

This was John's official properties...

But what about his other persona? This is the properties for that:

{

Name: ???,

ID: ???

Data: Disabled,

Firewall: min,

Processing_Power: ∞,

Mental_Strength: ∞,

Entropy: Disabled,

Paradise_Level: ???,

Avatar_Level: ???,

VIP: Disabled

}

A lot of the other functions were disabled for this persona.

John also remembered S-even's ID. He wasn't able to use VIP stuff until graduation. But he would definitely add him later.

You probably also noticed something quite important here. Because of the yin and yang becoming part of John's secret Paradise.

He wouldn't experience entropy when transformed. That's right! John was immortal even when not within the bounds of the system.

But 'J-0hn' could still experience entropy as his Paradise and Avatar were average.

So he could still die!

But that's where his dual state existence comes in handy. It has already been shown that you can ressurect data lifeforms.

John can ressurect himself using his secret identity! In otherwords...

Good luck killing him!

It was as if he had developed his own cheat for this world.

But entropy wasn't the only thing to worry about. There was also getting 'scrambled'. This was the biggest fear of a data lifeform.

You lose your entire personality and become a processor for the universe.

This was how they enforced laws in this world. It was essentially what death for a data lifeform was.

"Scrambled?"

John began to think of countermeasures.

"If I find myself in a bad position. I'll just transform. I'd like to see them try to scramble something that overflows the system!"

John's dual state existence was something entirely new. Even he wasn't sure what would happen if they scrambled him.

But a flash of memories went by in John's mind.

"Every time I've been wiped out. I've cheated death. I doubt being scrambled is enough to end me! If it can... I just need to take time to study it. Then I'll make countermeasures for it...Thanks to my dual state consciousness. I'm already in a far higher state then other data lifeforms."

John had witnessed them unraveling his consciousness. His firewall wasn't at the top of this world. John didn't believe everything he was told. He thought there were levels beyond 'maximum'.

John knew school was just a construct made by the first data lifeforms... Just how strong were the ancients?

John was looking forward to surpassing them! Once he conquered this universe. Perhaps he could bring some of them outside of this world.

'User has passed level 6.'